Title: Exclude/Include certain categories
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Exclude/Include certain categories

 *  [micdt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/micdt/)
 * (@micdt)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excludeinclude-certain-categories/)
 * Hi everyone,
    Hueman is – like Anew – a wonderful theme – kudos to Alexander!
   There is one thing though I’d like to be dealt with. If I dedicate a sidebar 
   to e.g. Asides or Quotes (basically anything without a picture) I do not want
   these posts to appear in the main section as well. Posts without pictures don’t
   look too good there anyway, do they? A switch in configuration of the widget 
   would be nice. Or an array in the general options to choose which categories 
   to include into the main area … Cheers!

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 *  Thread Starter [micdt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/micdt/)
 * (@micdt)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excludeinclude-certain-categories/#post-4469780)
 * For the time being this works.
    Category numbers ‘5’ and ’34’ are just examples
   of course… Add code to the functions.php of your child-theme:
 *     ```
       function exclude_category_home( $query ) {
           if ( $query->is_home ) {
               $query->set( 'cat', '-5, -34' );
           }
           return $query;
       }
        add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category_home' );
       ```
   
 *  [soultga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soultga/)
 * (@soultga)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excludeinclude-certain-categories/#post-4469956)
 * Thank you, micdt! This was exactly what I was looking for, and worked perfectly.

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 * Last reply from: [soultga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soultga/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excludeinclude-certain-categories/#post-4469956)
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